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Will adding PCI-e cards hinder the graphical performance of my GTX 1070

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Using a P6X58D-E mobo, and I currently have a GTX 1070 installed. Now I know its a pretty old chipset (X58) but my question: is using a soundcard and wifi adapter in the other PCI-e slots affecting the available bandwidth of my GPU? 

On a semi-related note my soundblaster zx didn't give stellar performance in the mini 1.1 slot so had to bump it up to a pci-e x16 slot. 

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It won't. You have plenty of extra PCIE lanes on that chipset that the 1070 will still be x16. Your CPU will be a bigger problem mattering on cores and clock rate.

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X58 have 36 PCIe lanes to play with, so 16 for the GPU and a couple more for the sound card and WiFi adapter won't hurt it.

 

EDIT: However the chipset may be dividing the lanes up based on how many cards there are, not how many PCIe lanes they use. This block diagram:

576px-X58_Block_Diagram.png

 

Suggests that you can have two cards in the x16 slots and still get the full x16 lanes. However the moment you add two more (or even one more), you drop all the slots to x8.

 

Probably won't be a problem still, considering PCIe 2.0 x8 is fine for GPUs.

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